This talk will examine how it is possible to integrate live motion controls such as Microsoft Kinect and Sony Move with a unified character animation network that can include animation blending, inverse kinematics and physics simulation. It will look at how the tools used for authoring runtime animation networks can be extended to work with live animation data supplied by systems like Kinect, and how these tools will allow animators to mix live skeletal data with more traditional animation techniques.
In addition to discussing the concepts of working with a unified animation network, the session will feature a live demonstration of using motion controls with morpheme. This will show how it is possible to author runtime animation networks that control how Kinect’s data is retargeted onto game characters, how it can be combined with other animation, how it can be used within an animation state machine, and how it can be mixed with IK and physics.